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Google’s reconsidering its approach to Circle to Search within Gemini (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-07-29 13:29:10

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR Circle to Search has been a great tool for working with on-screen content, and Google’s been developing similar solutions across its ecosystem. Earlier this year we first uncovered evidence of a Circle to Search-like feature for Gemini. While still not user-accessible, Google’s been changing how this tool is labeled and what happens once you activate it. Google’s long had a bit of overlap when it comes to all the various services and apps it offers, s

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Data brokers are selling flight information to CBP and ICE

news.ycombinator.com Paige Collings 2025-07-29 11:02:36

For many years, data brokers have existed in the shadows, exploiting gaps in privacy laws to harvest our information—all for their own profit. They sell our precise movements without our knowledge or meaningful consent to a variety of private and state actors, including law enforcement agencies. And they show no sign of stopping. This incentivizes other bad actors. If companies collect any kind of personal data and want to make a quick buck, there’s a data broker willing to buy it and sell it t

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Nvidia chips become the first GPUs to fall to Rowhammer bit-flip attacks

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-07-29 13:25:36

Nvidia is recommending a mitigation for customers of one of its GPU product lines that will degrade performance by up to 10 percent in a bid to protect users from exploits that could let hackers sabotage work projects and possibly cause other compromises. The move comes in response to an attack a team of academic researchers demonstrated against Nvidia’s RTX A6000, a widely used GPU for high-performance computing that’s available from many cloud services. A vulnerability the researchers discove

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Google is changing Chrome’s new tab page to bring AI Mode front-and-center

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-07-29 21:32:27

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Google is testing a new search bar design in Chrome Beta for Android that includes an AI Mode shortcut. This new design, which also repositions voice search and Lens shortcuts, appears in two variants across different devices running the same Chrome Beta version. The integration of an AI Mode shortcut into Chrome aims to increase user awareness and usage of the feature, given Chrome’s significant market share. While Google is still the most dominant s

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This Common Pain Med Could Be Raising Dementia Risk

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-07-30 01:40:38

Chronic pain can be a debilitating experience. A common medication used to manage the condition may come with its own serious dangers, however. Recent research finds an upsetting link between the drug gabapentin and a higher risk of dementia. Scientists at Case Western Reserve University led the study, which examined the medical records of people with chronic low back pain. People taking gabapentin for their back were significantly more likely to develop dementia over time compared to non-users

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Bold Mission to Hunt for Aliens on Venus Is Happening

news.ycombinator.com Natalia Mesa 2025-07-27 10:45:56

A UK-based mission is aiming to settle, once and for all, whether life exists on Venus. The mission plans to send a probe to the planet in search of microbial life, not on the surface, of course, but in the Venusian clouds. Over the past half-decade, scientists have detected the presence of phosphine and ammonia—two potential signs of biological activity—in Venus’s clouds. On Earth, both gases are produced only by biological activity and industrial processes, and scientists are unsure of their

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I would use Google’s AI tools more if it fixed this glaring problem

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-07-30 21:00:38

Rushil Agrawal / Android Authority Ever since ChatGPT started gaining in popularity, every other tech company has been rushing to keep up with its advancements in generative AI. Although some might argue that OpenAI’s chatbot is still on top, the company that I believe has come closest to surpassing it is Google. After Google CEO Sundar Pichai issued a “code red” in December 2022 to meet the threat OpenAI represented, the company has created a powerful, robust, and wide-reaching set of AI-power

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6 easy ways to identify a song using your Android phone

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-07-30 20:49:20

filo/Getty Images You've probably been there before: there's a song stuck in your head and you can't remember the words, or you hear a song that you want to remember but don't know the name. Fortunately, it's never been easier to identify music around you if you have an Android phone. All but one of these features is tied to Google, but each one works differently, and one even works without you having to unlock your phone and works offline. Also: How to clear your Android phone cache (and why

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Show HN: ArchGW – An intelligent edge and service proxy for agents

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-29 15:55:39

Arch is a proxy server designed as a modular edge and AI gateway for agentic apps Arch handles the pesky low-level work in building agentic apps — like applying guardrails, clarifying vague user input, routing prompts to the right agent, and unifying access to any LLM. It’s a language and framework friendly infrastructure layer designed to help you build and ship agentic apps faster. Quickstart • Demos • Build agentic apps with Arch • Route LLMs • Documentation • Contact Overview AI demos a

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Scientists Gene Hack Mice So Their Livers Produce Their Own Ozempic-Like Drug

futurism.com Unknown 2025-07-30 16:51:22

Image by Remi Benali/Getty Images Rx/Medicines Scientists have gene-hacked mice to produce their own Ozempic-like drugs — possibly, and provocatively, perhaps paving a path for humans to do so themselves one day. In a new study published in the journal Communications Medicine, researchers from Japan's University of Osaka successfully gene-edited mice livers to produce exenatide, a first-generation diabetes drug and predecessor to now-trendy jabs like Ozempic and Mounjaro. Using lab mice that

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Windows 10 KB5062554 update breaks emoji panel search feature

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-07-30 15:15:25

The search feature for the Windows 10 emoji panel is broken after installing the KB5062554 cumulative update released Tuesday, making it not possible to look up emojis by name or keyword. Windows includes an emoji panel that allows you to select emojis to insert into text or search for an emoji using keywords. On Tuesday, Microsoft released Windows updates to fix bugs and security vulnerabilities as part of the July 2025 Patch Tuesday. Since installing the Windows 10 KB5062554 update, numerou

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Show HN: ArchGW – an intelligent edge and service proxy for agents

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-30 01:55:39

Hey HN! This is Adil, Salman and Jose and and we’re behind archgw [1]. An intelligent proxy server designed as an edge and AI gateway for agents - one that natively know how to handle prompts, not just network traffic. We’ve made several sweeping changes so sharing the project again. A bit of background on why we’ve built this project. Building AI agent demos is easy, but to create something production-ready there is a lot of repeat low-level plumbing work that everyone is doing. You’re applyi

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These LGBTQ+ Archives Defy Erasure, One Memory at a Time

wired.com Geraldine Castro 2025-07-30 16:30:00

Being queer, often, means feeling unseen. “We come from a history of erasure that is manifested not only through hate crimes and discrimination, but also through a lack of representation, symbolic violence, and the absence of legal protections,” explains André Mere Rivera, director of the Queer Memory Archive of Peru (Archivo de la Memoria Marica del Perú). The project Mere leads is part of a growing wave of collaborative projects in which Latin American LGBTQ+ communities preserve and share th

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'Starter packs' have played a central role in Bluesky's rapid growth

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-30 12:22:40

“Vital onboarding strategy for the emerging social media systems” “Our findings go beyond Bluesky: they point to a new framework for launching successful social platforms,” said Dr Onur Ascigil, Lecturer in Computer Science at Lancaster University and Principal Investigator of the study. “Starter packs are becoming a vital onboarding strategy for the emerging social media systems that are seeking to attract users from dominant platforms.” The researchers believe their findings could help platfo

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Chinese Scientists Create Cyborg Bees That Can Be Controlled Like Drones for Undercover Military Missions

futurism.com Unknown 2025-07-30 11:45:45

Chinese Scientists Create Cyborg Bees That Can Be Controlled Like Drones for Undercover Military Missions A tiny backpack relays commands straight to their brain. Seal Team Bee Researchers at the Beijing Institute of Technology have turned innocent bees into cyborgs that can be controlled via a 74-milligram insect brain controller. As the South China Morning Post reports, the controller pierces the bee's tiny brain with three needles and uses signals sent via electronic pulses to make it fly

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AI chatbot’s simple ‘123456’ password risked exposing personal data of millions of McDonald’s job applicants

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2025-08-01 05:21:17

In Brief Security researchers found that they could access the personal information of 64 million people who had applied for a job at McDonald’s, in large part by logging into the company’s AI job hiring chatbot with the username and password “123456.” Ian Carroll and Sam Curry wrote in a blog post that “during a cursory security review of a few hours,” they found the password issue and another simple security vulnerability in an internal API, which allowed access to job applicants’ past conve

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Google Lens gets a new UI with a cleaner look, but it’s not all good news

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-01 19:54:03

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google has simplified the Lens interface even more. However, the refreshed UI removes the Homework feature, supposedly to promote Gemini for cognitive tasks like helping with learning. Google Lens recently also received support for AI Mode for more descriptive search results. In recent months, Google has been shifting its focus away from Google Lens as it upgrades its visual search features using Gemini’s AI or Circle to Search. And now, it is bringi

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A Bold Mission to Hunt for Aliens on Venus Is Actually Happening

gizmodo.com Natalia Mesa 2025-08-02 13:15:31

A UK-based mission is aiming to settle, once and for all, whether life exists on Venus. The mission plans to send a probe to the planet in search of microbial life, not on the surface, of course, but in the Venusian clouds. Over the past half-decade, scientists have detected the presence of phosphine and ammonia—two potential signs of biological activity—in Venus’s clouds. On Earth, both gases are produced only by biological activity and industrial processes, and scientists are unsure of their

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Circle to Search has finally figured out landscape mode

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-03 00:50:27

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR Circle to Search makes it incredibly easy to look up basically anything you see on your phone screen. So far, though, in landscape mode Circle to Search would often cover up the area you circled. Google has now started delivering results in a floating card that can be offset to the side in landscape view. What’s your favorite new Android feature of the past couple years? While we’re hugely impressed with what Google’s managed to do with Gemini, especi

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Perplexity's Comet AI browser is hurtling toward Chrome - how to try it

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-08-03 01:58:19

zuperia/Getty Images AI search start-up Perplexity has ramped up its competition with Google by releasing Comet, its new web browser, on Wednesday. Built upon Perplexity's proprietary search engine, Comet is compatible with "all of your usual extensions, settings, and bookmarks," according to a Perplexity blog, meaning it's "a seamless switch" to make it your new default browser. It's initially being launched for Mac and Windows, with support on other platforms expected to arrive in the coming

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State of the Art: Economic Development Through the Lens of Paintings

news.ycombinator.com Clément Gorin 2025-07-30 21:44:18

We would like to thank Dionissi Aliprantis, Laure Athias, Sascha Becker, Karol Borowiecki, Nicolas Baumard, Davide Cantoni, Don Davis, Shari Eli, Oliver Falck, Oded Galor, Ed Glaeser, Claudia Goldin, Erik Hornung, Robert Johannes, Hubertus Kohle, Ruru Hoong, Michael Hutter, Bob Margo, Stelios Michalopoulos, Petra Moser, Nathan Nunn, Ömer Özak, Dominic Rohner, Stefanie Schneider, Munir Squires, Marco Tabellini, Mathias Thoenig, Daniel Trefler, Matt Turner, Hans-Joachim Voth, Fabian Waldinger, and

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Announcing the winners of VentureBeat’s 7th Annual Women in AI awards

venturebeat.com Aliyah Mohammed 2025-08-04 04:59:14

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now VentureBeat announced the winners of the seventh annual Women in AI Awards at VB Transform in San Francisco on June 25. The awards recognize and honor the women leaders and changemakers in the field of AI. The nominees were submitted by the public and chosen by a VentureBeat committee based on their commitment to the industry, their work t

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The Origin of the Research University

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-01 02:50:52

If you were alive in 1800 and someone asked you about the future of research, it wouldn’t occur to you to mention the university. Real scholarship happened in new, modern, enlightened institutions like the British Royal Society or the French Académie des sciences. Universities were a medieval relic. And nowhere was it more medieval, hidebound, and generally dysfunctional than in the German-speaking world. But something happened to German universities at the turn of the 19th century — they develo

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The End of the Internet As We Know It

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-08-04 09:53:52

The internet as we know it runs on clicks. Billions of them. They fuel ad revenue, shape search results, and dictate how knowledge is discovered, monetized, and, at times, manipulated. But a new wave of AI powered browsers is trying to kill the click. They’re coming for Google Chrome. On Wednesday, the AI search startup Perplexity officially launched Comet, a web browser designed to feel more like a conversation than a scroll. Think of it as ChatGPT with a browser tab, but souped up to handle y

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Show HN: MCP server for searching and downloading documents from Anna's Archive

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-04 17:06:38

Anna's Archive MCP Server An MCP server for searching and downloading documents from Anna's Archive Note Notwithstanding prevailing public sentiment regarding Anna's Archive, the platform serves as a comprehensive repository for automated retrieval of documents released under permissive licensing frameworks (including Creative Commons publications and public domain materials). This software does not endorse unauthorized acquisition of copyrighted content and should be regarded solely as a util

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“Things we’ll never know” science fair highlights US’s canceled research

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-04 20:55:56

Washington, DC—From a distance, the gathering looked like a standard poster session at an academic conference, with researchers standing next to large displays of the work they were doing. Except in this case, it was taking place in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill, and the researchers were describing work that they weren’t doing. Called "The things we’ll never know," the event was meant to highlight the work of researchers whose grants had been canceled by the Trump administrat

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“Things we’ll never know” science fair highlights US’ canceled research

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-05 01:55:56

Washington, DC — From a distance, the gathering looked like a standard poster session at an academic conference, with researchers standing next to large displays of the work they were doing. Except in this case, it was taking place in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill, and the researchers were describing work that they weren’t doing. Called "The things we’ll never know," the event was meant to highlight the work of researchers whose grants had been canceled by the Trump administr

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Your Fitbit Could Become Your Post-Surgery Best Friend

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-08-05 05:25:16

A Fitbit a day just might help keep your post-surgery woes at bay. Research today finds that wearable data can predict children’s risk of health problems following a removed appendix. Scientists in Chicago conducted the study, which equipped over a hundred children with Fitbits after their appendectomy. Using a specially designed algorithm, the Fitbits accurately detected whether children would develop postoperative complications, often days before they were formally diagnosed. The findings sug

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YPlasma zaps the air to cool chips for data centers

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-08-05 06:40:00

If you didn’t know any better, you might think it’s magic. David Garcia gave TechCrunch a demo video demonstration of a device developed by his company, YPlasma. A row of five candles sit in front of a harmonica-like device with wires hanging off it. Suddenly, the flames flicker and then snuff out. Inside the device, two strips of copper coursing with electrical current are generating plasmas, or clouds of charged particles, that induce airflow through the cavity and out over the candles. It’

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Circle to Search gets a key upgrade first on the Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Flip 7

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-05 21:00:35

TL;DR The Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Flip 7 are the first devices to receive the improved Circle to Search with AI Mode. AI Mode supports longer questions in Google Search and enables more descriptive answers. With AI Mode in Circle to Search, you can add context to screen snippets for improved results. AI Mode is also coming to Google Lens. Among all other touchpoints, Google has been especially bullish on injecting AI into our Search experience. After first launching its AI Mode in Google search

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Latest Tech News

Google’s reconsidering its approach to Circle to Search within Gemini (APK teardown)

Data brokers are selling flight information to CBP and ICE

Nvidia chips become the first GPUs to fall to Rowhammer bit-flip attacks

Google is changing Chrome’s new tab page to bring AI Mode front-and-center

This Common Pain Med Could Be Raising Dementia Risk

Bold Mission to Hunt for Aliens on Venus Is Happening

I would use Google’s AI tools more if it fixed this glaring problem

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Scientists Gene Hack Mice So Their Livers Produce Their Own Ozempic-Like Drug

Windows 10 KB5062554 update breaks emoji panel search feature

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These LGBTQ+ Archives Defy Erasure, One Memory at a Time

'Starter packs' have played a central role in Bluesky's rapid growth

Chinese Scientists Create Cyborg Bees That Can Be Controlled Like Drones for Undercover Military Missions

AI chatbot’s simple ‘123456’ password risked exposing personal data of millions of McDonald’s job applicants

Google Lens gets a new UI with a cleaner look, but it’s not all good news

A Bold Mission to Hunt for Aliens on Venus Is Actually Happening

Circle to Search has finally figured out landscape mode

Perplexity's Comet AI browser is hurtling toward Chrome - how to try it

State of the Art: Economic Development Through the Lens of Paintings

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“Things we’ll never know” science fair highlights US’ canceled research

Your Fitbit Could Become Your Post-Surgery Best Friend

YPlasma zaps the air to cool chips for data centers

Circle to Search gets a key upgrade first on the Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Flip 7

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